Case Law Details
State of Odisha & Ors. Vs Sunanda Mahakuda (Supreme Court of India)
Looking to the period of delay and the casual manner in which the application has been worded, we consider appropriate impose costs of Rs.25,000/- to be deposited with the Supreme Court Advocates On Record Welfare Fund. The amount be deposited in four weeks. The amount be recovered from the officers responsible for the delay in filing both the Writ Appeal and the Special Leave Petition and a certificate of recovery be also filed in this Court within the same period of time.
FULL TEXT OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT
The present SLPs have been filed after a delay of 1954 days in respect of impugned order dated 12.03.2015 of the learned Single Judge and delay of 545 qua the order in Writ Appeal. We may notice that the Writ Appeal itself was preferred after a delay of 783 days and was found not to have been properly explained. We may add that the present Special Leave Petition is filed after contempt proceedings were initiated on 13.05.2019, on dismissal of the Writ Appeal. Now, it is our chance to scrutinize a little more closely the aforesaid conduct of the State Government.
The application for condonation of delay explains the reasons for delay in para 2 which reads as under:
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